Franz Uri Boas (July 9, 1858 – December 21, 1942) was a German-American anthropologist and a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father...

communications with Franz Boas in 1903 about the existence of the Shrine, photographing it meticulously to gauge his interest; Boas was excited to purchase...

kayak, which was described by Franz Boas as the most widely known Inuit legend in the circumpolar region. Boas, Franz (March 1904), "The Folk-Lore of...

classifications of race. It is said that before Boas, anthropology was the study of race, and after Boas, anthropology was the study of culture. The 20th-century...

The houses were about 20–60 feet wide and 50–150 feet long. In 1888, Franz Boas published "The Journal of American Folk-Lore" a journal discussing American...

Boasian anthropology was a school within American anthropology founded by Franz Boas in the late 19th century. Boasian anthropology was based on the four-field...

established as axiomatic in anthropological research by Franz Boas and later popularized by his students. Boas first articulated the idea in 1887: "...civilization...

currently contains members from about three dozen nations. Since the work of Franz Boas and Bronisław Malinowski in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, social...

dog-like fidelity which has stood the supreme test." Since the 1920s, Franz Boas and his school of anthropology at Columbia University were criticising...

Look up boas in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Boas might refer to: Boidae, snakes Boas' sign, pain below the right shoulder BOAS is an acronym for...

our civilization goes". However, Boas did not use the phrase "cultural relativism". The concept was spread by Boas' students, such as Robert Lowie. The...

unilineal theories of cultural evolution. Cultural anthropologists such as Franz Boas, typically regarded as the leader of anthropology's rejection of classical...

language. The original claim is loosely based in the work of anthropologist Franz Boas and was particularly promoted by his contemporary, Benjamin Lee Whorf...

dominated anthropology until Boas. It argued that each society is a collective representation of its unique historical past. Boas rejected parallel evolutionism...

community of Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw located at Fort Rupert. The anthropologist Franz Boas had done most of his anthropological work in this area and popularized...

Germanic linguistics at Columbia, where he came under the influence of Franz Boas, who inspired him to work on Native American languages. While finishing...

ideas. This view paved the way for the modern understanding of culture. Franz Boas (1858–1942) was trained in this tradition, and he brought it with him...

work as a graduate student with Franz Boas at Columbia University in 1921. She developed a close friendship with Boas, who took on a role as a kind of...

Members of the early 20th-century school of American anthropology headed by Franz Boas and Edward Sapir also embraced forms of the idea to a certain extent,...

(Natsilik proper aqigžeq) Utkuhiksalik ipřit 'you' (Natsilik proper ižvit) Franz Boas included the Ukusiksalirmiut as a tribe of the "Central Eskimo" in the...

(such as bowmaking or pottery) as an indicator of position on this scale. Franz Boas established academic anthropology in the United States in opposition to...

Kwagu'ł describes the potlatch in his famous speech to anthropologist Franz Boas, We will dance when our laws command us to dance, we will feast when our...

(1799–1851). In the late 19th century, German-American anthropologist Franz Boas (1858–1942) strongly impacted biological anthropology by emphasizing the...

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consequently gave birth to men and dogs. Boas, "The Central Eskimo" 640. Boas, "The Folklore of the Eskimo" 512. Boas, "The Eskimo of Baffin Land and Hudson...

and ethnology under Franz Boas after working with Fredric Ward Putnam to obtain his PhD at Harvard. Dixon worked as a member of Boas's Jesup North Pacific...

History). It was planned and directed by the American anthropologist Franz Boas. The participants included a number of significant figures in American...

1960) was an American cultural anthropologist. He received his PhD under Franz Boas at Columbia University in 1901, the first doctorate in anthropology awarded...

white woman. She conducted ethnographic research with anthropologist Franz Boas of Columbia University and later studied with him as a graduate student...

and the Suquamish people killed many of the Chimakum people. In 1890, Franz Boas found out about only three speakers, and they spoke it imperfectly, of...